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Black Image New Deal : Politics Fsa Photography by Nicholas Natanson (1992, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press

ISBN-100870497243

ISBN-139780870497247

eBay Product ID (ePID)282415

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

Publication NameBlack Image New Deal : Politics Fsa Photography

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

SubjectSociology / General, African American

TypeTextbook

AuthorNicholas Natanson

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN91-014344

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973/.0496073

SynopsisBetween 1935 and 1942, photographers for the New Deal's Resettlement Administration-Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured in powerfully moving images the travail of the Great Depression and the ways of a people confronting radical social change. Those who speak of the special achievement of FSA photography usually have in mind such white icons as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother or Walker Evans's Alabama sharecroppers. But some six thousand printed images, a tenth of FSA's total, included black figures or their dwellings. At last, Nicholas Natanson reveals both the innovative treatment of African Americans in FSA photographs and the agency's highly problematic use of these images once they had been created. While mono-dimensional treatments of blacks were common in public and private photography of the period, such FSA photographers as Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, and Jack Delano were well informed concerning racial problems and approached blacks in a manner that avoided stereotypes, right-wing as well as left-wing. In addition, rather than focusing exclusively on FSA-approved agency projects involving blacks - politically the safest course - they boldly addressed wider social and cultural themes. This study employs a variety of methodological tools to explore the political and administrative forces that worked against documentary coverage of particularly sensitive racial issues. Moreover, Natanson shows that those who drew on the FSA photo files for newspapers, magazines, books, and exhibitions often entirely omitted images of black people and their environment or used devices such as cropping and captioning to diminish the true range of the FSA photographers' vision.

LC Classification NumberE185.6.N245 1992